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Part of that has more to do with the fact that AOSP is not used nearly as much and updating the default AOSP apps is not a good use of time for Google. The AOSP

by snazz 6y ago

Part of that has more to do with the fact that AOSP is not used nearly as much and updating the default AOSP apps is not a good use of time for Google. The AOSP browser was never [edit: not recently] competitive with Chrome and the AOSP mail app was never [edit: not recently] competitive with Gmail.

nradov 6y ago
Yes if no one puts time into updating the default AOSP apps then they will stop being competitive. That seems like a tautology.
kllrnohj 6y ago
> The AOSP browser was never competitive with Chrome That's really not true, and not how it worked. Chrome was very late to the mobile game (first released 2012, a year after Android 4.0 / ICS was released) and its first few attempts on Android sucked. It was incredibly slow & laggy when it first finally came to Android. It's obviously not a good use of resources to make two webkit-based browsers both targeting the same market, but it was a complete swap out from one to the other over a relatively short time-frame. It's not like the mail vs. gmail situation where it was actually two "competing" apps for quite a long while.